Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Pair: Air Mechanic 2nd Class G. R. Noble, South African Royal Flying Corps
British War and Victory Medals (Z-458 2-A.M. G. R. Noble, S.A.R.F.C.), very fine or better and rare

Board of Trade Rocket Life Saving Apparatus Long Service, G.V.R. (Andrew Noble), good very fine (3) £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to the Royal Flying Corps, Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force.

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George Ralph Noble, who was born in Burghead, Morayshire, Scotland, originally enlisted in the South African Army Medical Corps at Potchefstroom in November 1915, aged 23 years. Subsequently discharged from the Corps in April 1917, after a year’s service with the 2nd S.A. Field Ambulance in East Africa, where he contracted malaria, he enlisted in the South African Royal Flying Corps in the following month. He subsequently served as a Air Mechanic 2nd Class on the strength of No. 26 Squadron at Dar-es-Salaam from June 1917 until being discharged for a final time in April 1918, back at Wynberg, South Africa; sold with copied service records.